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Ben Affleck Pressured PBS to Edit Out Slave-Owning Grandfather in Ancestry Doc
Breitbart ^ | 2015-04-17 | Daniel Nussbaum

Posted on 04/17/2015 5:02:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: Morpheus2009

“Blacks were usually enslaved by other blacks in Africa before being sent across the ocean.”
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Makes you wonder how often whites were enslaved by whites.


61 posted on 04/17/2015 6:31:49 PM PDT by Regal
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

His descendants will want his lousy movies to be whitewashed from their history.


62 posted on 04/17/2015 6:41:01 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: EternalVigilance

I don’t.


63 posted on 04/17/2015 6:41:46 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have researched my ancestry in the past few months. They came from Germany in the early 1800’s and were mostly grain farmers until global warming caused a drought in Montana in 1934 and my grandfather moved to Oregon.

The amazing thing is that looking through the census data, the census forms asked as to whether the citizens could speak and write in English. My ancestors could. Most of the others that were immigrants could also. Looks like they came over here prepared to live in a free society and did their best to adapt to become Americans.

Something that shows you how our society has devolved.


64 posted on 04/17/2015 6:44:53 PM PDT by bobo1 (progressives=commies/fascists)
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To: PghBaldy

How thoroughly have you looked at your family tree back to all the first-comers to this country?

I was completely shocked by what I found when I did it. Wasn’t what I expected at all.


65 posted on 04/17/2015 6:45:03 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ben’s just trying to skip out on paying those reparations.


66 posted on 04/17/2015 6:45:15 PM PDT by Argus
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m not proud to write this, but my great grandfather owned Ben Affleck’s grandfather. He used him to pick cotton in Norway. My family owned a huge cotton plantation in Norway.

We have many songs that started in those cotton fields.

“Oh, the herring is a tricky fish
But he makes an awfully tasty dish
Lutefisk is stored in lye
Drain it off or else you’ll die
Do-Da, Do-Da”


67 posted on 04/17/2015 6:59:31 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: glorgau

Winner !!


68 posted on 04/17/2015 7:05:27 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: EternalVigilance
You have ignored every single post that I have made and then, rather pathetically, gone off on a puerile, silly agednda of your own!

WAKE UP....MOST PEOPLE CAME HERE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR ENDED AND DIDN'T INTERMARRY FOR GENERATIONS, FOR DIFFERENT REASONS; USUALLY RELIGIOUS ONES!

My family has had one member who was the "family historian" and I was trained, from early childhood, to be the next one. A few decades ago, many of my older maternal cousins ( second, third, and farther off ) got together and updated the family tree, so unlike YOU, I have been heavily involved in this topic for almost my entire life.

You are thoroughly ignoring FACTS, because they don't fit your rather peculiar agenda.

Tell me, please, how it is that you, though ignorant of/ignoring hard. cold facts, can keep on repeating the same old tired, inaccurate, patently FALSE statements.

Since NOBODY in Hungary, especially NOT my family, ever owned a black slave, nor married anyone with ANY ties to any American, from Virginia or some other place ( prior to coming here ) and then it took several generations for someone to marry someone without any Hungarian heritage, how am I supposedly have a connection to a Tidewater, Virginia slave holder? You don't even know me, my family, its history, yet you have the temerity to make such egregious statements!

Neither do you know my friends, whose backgrounds and family history you also know nothing at all about!

Your banal statements completely ignore the differences between certain ethic and religious groups.

You've always been a pompous, arrogant, benighted poster and it looks as though you've gotten much worse!

69 posted on 04/17/2015 7:07:57 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: EternalVigilance

I bet you found lots of thieves, crooks, degenerates, and frauds.


70 posted on 04/17/2015 7:09:48 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Leave my family out of this.


71 posted on 04/17/2015 7:15:06 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

You’re related to Eternal Vigilance, or is was your post a joke?
I hope that it’s the latter, because then it’s funny.


72 posted on 04/17/2015 7:16:46 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Several blacks ought to approach Ben and ask what he tinks about Mike Brown.


73 posted on 04/17/2015 7:17:13 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morpheus2009

Not really. MANY immigrant waves came after the civil war. And many before that went to states that never had slavery, like the germans and the midwest.


74 posted on 04/17/2015 7:18:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nopardons

It depends. Is he rich?

Turns out I’m related to a bunch of rich people who have never heard of me.


75 posted on 04/17/2015 7:20:53 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: yarddog

They were given land by the crown to settle Canada with whites (and replace the properties seized by the revolutionaries).


76 posted on 04/17/2015 7:25:02 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Despot of the Delta
Exactly. This “Professor” Gates is a nut case. Didn't he revert to ghetto behavior when he was arrested. I think he made a yo mama comment and claimed racism immediately. He is obsessed with the subject.

He loves to see the expressions on their faces when he tells people that they have slave-holding ancestors. I wish someone would snap back at him and say, “Of course there were slave holders in my American ancestry.....why are YOU surprised?”

Almost anyone with ancestry going back to early America has considerable slavery in the narrative. We don't have just one ggg+grandfather, we have MANY. The slave system is simply the way it was at that time, has been throughout history all over the world, and what is still going on today before our very eyes in many areas in the world.

Many of us, black or white, would find that we are descendants of at least one slave if we went back far enough in Europe, Africa, ...everywhere. Enough already.

77 posted on 04/17/2015 7:27:28 PM PDT by Swede Girl
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To: EternalVigilance
Most people in this country have some lines that come from slave holders.

If you go back far enough, most people also have lines that came from slaves.

This is why studying (and understanding) history is so important. Slavery, was universal and unremarkable through all of human history and in every culture before the Enlightenment.

That revolution in human thought in Europe through the 17th and 18th centuries lead directly to the American Revolution where the ideas of the Enlightenment were first brought in to practice and where the first organized opposition to slavery on moral, intellectual and even religious grounds first appeared.

But don't expect a pampered over paid tinsel covered idiot like Ben Aflac to comprehend that.

78 posted on 04/17/2015 7:27:47 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Calvin Locke

Crispus Attucks was one of the colonists killed in the Boston Massacre. He was black or part black/part Native American, but I don’t think he was a slave. One of the militia men wounded in the battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775, was Prince Estabrook, a slave born about 1741, who was later emancipated by his owner.


79 posted on 04/17/2015 7:30:29 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
Since Massachusetts was one of the first states to abolish slavery, it’s easy to forget that there were slaves in Massachusetts at one time.

Didn't the shipping industry in Massachusetts thrive by being involved in the importing of slaves?

80 posted on 04/17/2015 7:30:41 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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